Tuesday, September 6, 2016

This article was originally published in Southern Partisan Magazine in 1997.

“Being a Southerner is a spiritual condition, like being a Catholic
or Jew.” So wrote Richard Weaver in his essay “The South and the
American Union” in The Lasting South (1957). The South’s
experience during the war for its independence, he added, only confirmed
this separateness of spirit and a need to be a separate nation.

The South might be viewed as an American Ireland, Poland or Armenia,
not indeed unified by a different religious allegiance from its invader,
but different in its way of life, different in the values it ascribed
to things by reason of its world outlook, and made more different after
the war by its necessary confrontation of the tragic view . . . .”

With the United States seeking independence for countries around the
world, Weaver wrote, “it has certainly been handsome of the South not to
raise the question of its own independence again.”

'This could have huge potential, as early diagnosis is a key factor in survival rates'

A simple blood test that can detect cancer before any symptoms are noticeable has been developed by researchers in a breakthrough that could save thousands of lives.

The scientists, who unveiled the test at the British Science Festival in Swansea, compared the new test to a smoke detector, because it does not actually find cancer but changes to red blood cells that occur when cancer is present.

Discovering cancer early is a key factor in successful treatment.

If a tumour is caught in a single part of the body, there is a much better chance that it can be removed surgically.

Americans, it is said, are the most generous people in the world. We
give to our friends and neighbors and fellow countrymen when they need
help, of course, but we also help those who live thousands of miles away
in other countries.

We’re quick to provide a “hand up” to Americans in need, to help them
over rough spots and get them back on their feet so that they can then
care for themselves. There are those who, for various reasons, are
unable to help themselves, and we don’t mind continuing to provide
assistance for them.

The hand up is sometimes called a “safety net,” a device to save
those truly in need from falling into permanent despair. But for many
the safety net has turned into a hammock, no longer a device to help out
in an emergency or time of trouble, but an easy way of life for those
who would rather let others provide for them than provide for
themselves.

Were those documents…destroyed once there was a preservation order and a
subpoena in place? It looks like the answer is yes,” Chaffetz told
Hewitt.

FBI
Director James Comey, top State Department officials and — perhaps —
Hillary Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal will soon testify on Capitol
Hill about the former secretary of state’s email scandal.

“We will be holding hearings,” Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the chairman
of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told
conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday.

Chaffetz said that Comey is slated to appear in front of the House
Judiciary Committee next week.

And Patrick Kennedy, the State Department
career official who oversees day-to-day operations at the agency, will
testify in front of the Oversight Committee this week.

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Rep.
Jason Chaffetz asked the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
(USADC) Tuesday to review evidence from the FBI’s recent interviews to
decide whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or her
confidantes broke the law.

The Utah Republican wrote to U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips saying his
committee discovered a “sequence of events that may amount to
obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence and destruction of
evidence by Secretary Clinton and her employees and contractors,
including her attorneys, employees of Platte River Networks, and
employees of Clinton Executive Services Corporation.”

ANITA BRYANT WAS
ONE RIGHTEOUS BABE. There I said it, and she wasn't a spring chicken
in that picture but she was still smoking hot. She was 21 when I was
born, and yes I had a little school boy crush on her. Trying to live
the Christian life is, was, and will be major hard struggle. Especially
in junior high school (called middle school now). I feared for my soul
back then, because looking at her caused some stirrings whenever I saw
her picture. Longing after women especially Christian was a
thou-shalt-not as far as I understood it back then in my awkward age.
Like I said the Christian life is hard.

Up 20 with Independents

Phyllis Schlafly is a conservative icon who led millions to action,
reshaped the conservative movement, and fearlessly battled globalism and
the 'kingmakers' on behalf of America's workers and families. I was
honored to spend time with her during this campaign as she waged one
more great battle for national sovereignty.

I was able to speak
with her by phone only a few weeks ago, and she sounded as resilient as
ever. Our deepest prayers go out to her family and all her loved ones.
She was a patriot, a champion for women, and a symbol of strength. She
fought every day right to the end for America First.

Her legacy will live on in the movement she led and the millions she inspired.

When questions were raised
about Barack Obama’s birth, and whether he was actually eligible to be
president of the United States, he brushed the questions aside as if
answering them was beneath the dignity of a prince of the crown. He let
the questions fester for years before putting them to rest.

It’s
still not clear why he did that. He preferred to accuse inquiring minds
that wanted to know of racism and bigotry, as if the peasants had no
right to ask questions about the crown prince. The presidency is the
most precious honor Americans can bestow on one of their own, but Mr.
Obama treated the gift as nothing more than a trinket he was entitled
to, and who were these uppity people to question him?

Only
racists, bigots, mean-spirited zealots, right-wing fanatics and white
Christians who couldn’t appreciate the heavenly music of the call to
evening prayer at the mosque would do that. Even the mildest criticism,
of the sort that every president before him had to endure, was dismissed
as disrespect, even racism.

This Labor Day, America has 83,000 fewer coal jobs and 400 coal mines
than it did when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, showing that the
president has followed through on his pledge to “bankrupt” the coal
industry.

A 2015 study found the coal industry lost 50,000 jobs
from 2008 to 2012 during Obama’s first term.

During Obama’s second
term, the industry employment in coal mining has fallen by
another 33,300 jobs, 10,900 of which occurred in the last year alone, according to federal data. Currently, coal mining employs 69,460 Americans, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Much of the blame for the job losses is targeted at federal regulations
aimed at preventing global warming, which caused coal power plants to go bankrupt, resulting in a sharp decline in the price of coal.

The dominant historical opinion of the famous debate between Daniel
Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Young Hayne of South Carolina which
took place in the United States Senate in 1830 has long been that
Webster defeated Hayne both as an orator and a statesman. According to
the legend, Webster managed in the course of the debate to isolate the
South, especially South Carolina, by discrediting her political
principles of states’ rights, strict construction, and nullification,
and exposing them as dangerous to the permanency of the Union. In
addition, it is said that he imparted prestige and authority to the
National Republican principles of implied powers, federal supremacy, and
perpetual Union. From that moment onward, according to the legend,
Americans increasingly saw the Constitution not as a compact among
independent states but as a product of the people of the nation.

Americans contemplated a national government not strictly limited by the
Constitution but one empowered by it to promote national development
and the public good. It is further claimed that Webster’s peroration
with its paean to “Union and Liberty, now and forever, one and
inseparable” captured the imagination of the people and engendered a new
spirit of nationalism. This legend with its origins in the nineteenth
century has remained unchallenged to this day and continues to be taken
for granted by historians working in the antebellum period.[1]

Remembrance

Execution of Colonel Ho Ngoc CanLast words: "If I won the war, I would not condemn you as you have condemned me.I would not humiliate you as you have humiliated me.I would not ask you questions that you asked me.I fought for the freedom of my people.I have merit and I am not guilty.No one can convict me.History will criticize you as my Communist enemy.You want to kill me, then kill me.Do not blindfold me.Down with the Communists.Long live the Republic of Viet Nam !"

Colonel CraigMandeville:

“They wanted the people to see that he was dead,” said Craig Mandeville, an American adviser to the South Vietnamese army who fought side by side with Can. “He was believed to be some sort of invincible guy. The North Vietnamese thought that, too, and I even thought that when I fought with him.”

“He said, ‘OK, the country’s fallen, but by God we’re still South Vietnamese and we’re free,’ ” Mandeville recalled. “So he went down to Chuong Tien province and rounded up all these soldiers down there to form a Free Vietnam.”

Col. Can didn’t live long after that, but the legacy of his struggle lives on.

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.